The Australian government receives poor revenue returns from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (‘PRRT'), a tax regime that applies to integrated offshore, gas projects. By contrast the Netherlands has captured significant tax revenues from gas. We ask whether Australian government PRRT revenue...

The discovery of the gas field in Groningen became world news in 1960. Within a few years almost every household switched to natural gas and subsequently the use of manufactured gas and refinery gas came to an end. A national grid was established and cross-border connections were made in order...

The Netherlands has ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for the future - to cut them by 49 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and 95 percent by 2050. These targets and the likely new EU-wide targets under the recent EU Green Deal entail a rapid acceleration in decarbonization....